The climate giveth, and the climate taketh away.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05642-9
When there are no glaciers or ice dams left, they won't be able to kill people.
Everyone knows about the collapse of the ice dam downstream from where I am, right?
It was kind of a while ago.
Yes, it was 997 feet deep where I'm sitting right now.
That would have required about twice the capacity sump pump as I have now. The local dam/fishing spot back home failed just because of a big blizzard. Only one guy died, but proportionate to the number of people whose homes were flooded, I think that is probably greater than the floods in India.
The restrooms at the little bar/bait shop that was then run by the poor guy's parents had restrooms labeled 'De-cockus' and 'De-Bush.' Or it did in 1988.
The U.S. Geological Survey has monitored the Suicide Basin since 1965 but it was not until July 2011 that a glacial dam outburst was recorded. Since then, the basin has burst more than 30 times, the National Weather Service said.
Yeah, it's big news locally. There's been flooding every year recently but this is the worst.
Did you guys name your basin to keep real estate developers away?